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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

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Whew! That was close… Can we please all move on now? Focus on Flynn, and the chasm that potentially losing both Hill and Heater leaves at LB, and the upcoming draft. Really, anything else than Manning.

“the deal-breaker for Seattle — the offensive line. It’s unlikely to be ready to protect Manning in 2012 the way he needs protecting. It’s not that the O-line is bad. It’s just unproven. Seahawks management knows this better than any outsider. Hell, it’s a big part of the reason they signed in the last two years two temps for the QB position, Tarvaris Jackson and Charlie Whitehurst. So many linemen were going to be so unproven that it would have been foolish to put a premier QB in the crosshairs of opposing defenses. Throw in an actuarial-table-destroying series of injuries among them, and the plan proved out its wisdom, even if consecutive 7-9 seasons didn’t electrify the fan base. The OL greenness was a good part of the reason they could let go a veteran QB, Matt Hasselbeck”

I’m glad we can move on from this as well. Our scouts and coaches have a lot of QBs to scout.

Manning is an idiot to take Denver without even visiting Seattle. Whatever. They are AFC.

And Flynn will never be an elite qb. He’s simply a slight upgrade over T-Joke. For God’s sake, he’s started less games than Kolb. Acting like he’s the savior is the very definition of desperation and panic. Which Carrol and Schnieder wont do.

Wow, looks like Carrol’s lack of discipline is turning off more than just me. Clean up those penalties and mental mistakes!

There hasnt been a single qb worth taking other than Dalton, available to Seattle without major reaching or too many picks. Right now, I would rather have anyone than Carpenter, but he still has time to redeem himself. Myself, I think that pick will always be labeled a bust–I just hope Carp becomes a decent guard.

Get used to it people: we arent getting Tannehill, and whoever we do get wont be ready to start for three years. Likely we will have to suffer through a couple more qb’s before we get a good one. Just so long as it isnt like when we dumped Kreig, 13 qb’s in a row, and two years with a horrid Hasselbeck before he found his groove. I am patient, but I cant take that again.

Here come all the panic-stricken folks who will want us to draft qb with 3 of our top 4 picks each year for the next three years…

As for Seattle being smart for dumping Hass: no they werent. Until we get a qb who outperforms him, it wasnt smart.

Theres no way in hell you can argue T-Joke outperformed Hass. Hass had a better line in Tennessee, but they werent good: and we had a better D, better WR’s, and a better running game. And before Britt was hurt, Hass was in the top 5 qb’s in the league.

Moving on and moving up. Now please DO NOT overspend for Flynn. I love that Schneider will not get caught up in the hype, and have total faith that the right guy will be under center for us soon. GO SEAHAWKS!

I think the focus needs to be on getting Heater back and Mario Williams. Then we can have a little flexibility with the 12th pick and either get an edge rusher or LB and grab Cousins in the 2nd. Personally I’d love to see Cousins here or Kellen Moore. I know, I know…everyone says Kellen is too small, too weak of an arm….etc, etc. But he’s a winner, a film junkie, and I’d wager he knows the game better than 95% of the incoming rookies. And he has the best anticipation of anyone I’ve seen yet. Besides, historically lefties have always been touch and accuracy throwers.

I think Kellen Moore will be a solid pro. Gonna be a wild guessing game to figure on how low you could wait to grab him. He’ll be ready to play fairly quickly as well, as he has been throwing with pinpoint accuracy to NFL caliber receivers. I’m very high on him, landing somewhere in the range of a Doug Flutie type career with potential to be a Drew Brees jr. Love his accuracy.

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